đź“ť AITA for not responding to my family anymore?

By SpecialDriver1665 • Score: 2 • April 10, 2025 12:42 AM


AITA for not responding to my family anymore when they very seldom reach out? Back story. My life has been hard. My parents had me at 16 and 17, both suffered from hard drug addiction, I bounced around, was the kid who smelled poorly at school and had CPS show up to interview me a few times, it just wasn’t easy. Around 9/10 I moved in with my grandparents, who weren’t much better honestly. Smoked inside, alcoholics, at the bar every night of the week while I was home alone in the middle of the country, no phone, electronics, friends, nothing. I was robbed of A LOT growing up. Well, I’m 26 now. Dad died in 2023 at 42 of a heroin overdose. My died in 2024 from mesothelioma. My mom and I had gotten close over the past 8 years, I miss her so much. Anyway, again, a bit robbed in life. But I have a husband and 2 children of my own, in college, and we do very well for ourselves. Everything considered, I am happy in life. I have accepted my father’s death, pretty quickly, because he was on heroin for so long. My mother, it’s really hard to sum up my feelings into any one word or sentence. It’s just hard. I cared for her while she died and stood beside during her last breath. My siblings are 18 and 14 and I have more responsibilities now caring for them too. It’s been ROUGH. My grandma who I lived with also lives with my aunt, cousin, and her kids. Another cousin a few blocks over, another aunt in town. Almost my whole family is within 5 miles of me. However, since my mom passed in July, no one reaches out. No one has asked if I’m okay, or anything of the sort. I know they all have their grief too, which I have tried to support, but I get nothing back. Nothing ever. Unless it is to be asked a favor. It’s extremely isolating since half of them live together and the cousin who lives a few blocks over is the other cousins sister. They are always together, cousins, aunt and grandma. No one ever reaches out to me to hangout, talk, nothing. I try, and I am either ignored or plans cancelled. It’s to the point now where I am just mad. Honestly, I am pissed. My husband and I are pondering moving 900 miles away to where his brother and family lives. They all say oh no you can’t go! But they don’t even talk to me or visit me now? So am I the asshole if I just completely cut them out? Delete off socials and just move? I genuinely do not feel like I would be missed. But I know they will guilt me and make me feel bad.

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